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2024 Hardin County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hardin County, IA went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2570th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardin County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 21, 2024 14:30 | May 22, 2024 21:15 | 1d 6h | 2,350 | 6,079 |
| 2 | April 3, 2024 20:45 | April 3, 2024 23:45 | 3h | 1,125 | 670 |
| 3 | June 22, 2024 10:30 | June 22, 2024 11:45 | 1h 15m | 540 | 405 |
| 4 | July 15, 2024 21:45 | July 16, 2024 05:30 | 7h 45m | 210 | 817 |
| 5 | September 18, 2024 02:00 | September 18, 2024 04:15 | 2h 15m | 83 | 125 |
| 6 | August 2, 2024 21:45 | August 2, 2024 23:15 | 1h 30m | 71 | 107 |
| 7 | June 16, 2024 00:30 | June 16, 2024 01:15 | 45m | 69 | 52 |
| 8 | November 18, 2024 21:15 | November 18, 2024 22:15 | 1h | 56 | 56 |
| 9 | June 29, 2024 20:45 | June 29, 2024 22:15 | 1h 30m | 55 | 83 |
| 10 | February 21, 2024 00:15 | February 21, 2024 01:45 | 1h 30m | 50 | 51 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 4 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Hardin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2024 | 5.5 hrs | 1.42 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grundy County Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Iowa's customers in 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,885 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Hardin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardin County, IA annual power outage report, 2024, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2024/iowa/hardin-county